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I don't know whether to fall out laugh or cry at the prospect of another major election cycle with this blowhard on the campaign trail followed by his Teabaggers, Birthers, and Brown Menace TM -fearing fans. ( Reuters ): A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs...
A coalition of leaders from numerous Christian denominations have issued The Manhattan Declaration , a manifesto declaring the intent to disobey any laws that force them to recognize same-sex marriages. The group intends to use the document to sabotage the ENDA debate currently taking place in Congress. Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical,...
While the Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano focused mostly on disparate impact law, much of the subsequent discussion has focused on the threshold finding that the City of New Haven’s decision not to use the test scores to promote firefighters was, as a matter of law, disparate treatment discrimination against some white firefighters who would be promoted if the test scores were used....
Though it's been a few years since I had to go on the meat market, I'm still pretty keen to make the process for newbies as relatively painless as possible, and this blog has been one way to try to facilitate that goal. I know a number of my perma-prawf colleagues are either veterans of or currently sitting on their schools' appointments committees (appcomm); the same is true for many guest writers...
As the semester winds down and preparation for next semester gears up, I've had some thoughts about topic selection for my courses. For example, this year I cut "Defenses I" from the course - it was a survey of three really interesting defenses: reverse doctrine of equivalents, experimental use, and laches. They should all be really important defenses but for reasons I won't get into here,...
The title of this post is the headline of this provocative commentary by David Feige at Slate. Here is how it starts and ends: Sometime in the next few months, a small group of experienced criminal-defense lawyers will be assigned...
Fred von Lohmann’s series on the amended settlement continues with a post on competition issues. On the unclaimed-works issue, he reaches a pragmatic conclusion—or as pragmatic a conclusion as one can reach “without a crystal ball”: This raises a worthy...
The Birmingham, Ala. resident and Army veteran fell to his knees but never dropped the American flag he carried through the violence of 1965's Bloody Sunday civil rights march. Armstrong died this week at 86.
No, this post is not about the singer Rockwell or that annoying Geico commercial, but about whether you should just assume that your boss monitors your email. A new Wall Street Journal article suggests that is what exactly may be happening, but now there is some push back from employees and their advocates: Big Brother is watching. That is the message corporations routinely send their employees about...
I received a copy of David Kopel’s new book Aiming for Liberty yesterday (you can pre-order at that link). It’s a look at civil rights in general and, specifically, second amendment rights. I’m but a few pages in and note that the book picks up on the bigotry against gun owners angle. Quote in [...]
This is great news, and I'm thrilled that Jonah, the OCA metropolitan, is a signatory: Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way...
You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. Don't go home in pain. --Robert Downey, Jr., gravely, to Ben Stiller, in Tropic Thunder (2008), about the latter's acting method in the fictional flick "Simple Jack". (DreamWorks/Red Hour Films)...
(Photo: Paramount Pictures) "The dweebs. The dweebs." The downside of Type-A. Perfectionism. A great place to "be from". A wonderful instinct, if controlled. It's also a curse--of eldest children, professionals, knowledge workers, most lawyers, all spouses, your Mom, and...
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. Near universal is the view that he was Washington 's most influential lawmaker of...
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. Near universal is the view that he was Washington 's most influential lawmaker of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) –Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling has agreed to pay $2.725 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Sterling, longtime owner of the NBA team and a real estate mogul, was accused of discriminating against blacks, Hispanics and families with children at apartment buildings he owns. The government said...
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